DOJ: Cobell v. Norton, et al. Case No. 1:96CV01285 (D.D.C.)

Civil Division

U.S. Department of Justice

Cobell v. Norton, et al.

Case No. 1:96CV01285 (D.D.C.)

The Department of Justice has recently filed the following documents on behalf of the United States and the Departments of the Interior and Treasury. For older pleadings, please check our Archives.

NOW ONLINE: Government filings and Orders and Opinions in the Cobell appeals

Plaintiffs' discovery documents

Documents are provided in PDF and OCR formats and will open in a separate browser window for your convenience. PDF Documents can be viewed with Adobe's free Acrobat Reader. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a text file for use with reader devices for the visually impaired.

**Cobell Case Documents**
Date and Summary	Full Title
September 23, 2004 Government files with Court additional letters from individual Indian land owners regarding suspension of pending sales of their land	Notice of Filing PDF OCR
September 21, 2004 Interior files its report regarding damaged records pursuant to Court's Order of September 9, 2004	Notice of Filing of Report on Damaged Records by the Department of the Interior PDF OCR
September 17, 2004 Pursuant to Court's Order of September 2, 2004, Government reports funds paid to private counsel through July 2004 for representing employees and former employees of the Department of Interior	Report to the Court PDF OCR
September 16, 2004 Government withdraws its objection to plaintiffs' pleading based on timeliness despite the fact that plaintiffs did not serve the pleading on defendants in a timely fashion	Defendants' Response to Plaintiffs' Motion for Leave to File a Surreply in Response to Defendants' Reply Supporting Their Motion to Clarify or Modify the December 23, 2002 Order PDF OCR
September 10, 2004 Government asks Court to strike plaintiffs' motion that is yet one more instance of the improper utilization of pleadings for the launching of scandalous attacks against government officials and contractors	Defendants' Motion to Strike Plaintiffs' Motion for Reconsideration of the Court's May 28, 2004 Order Regarding Historical Statements of Account and to Admonish Plaintiffs' Counsel to Comply with the D.C. Bar's Voluntary Standards for Civility in Professional Conduct PDF OCR
September 10, 2004 Government urges rejection of plaintiffs' motion for reconsideration inasmuch as they show no reasonable justification for withholding completed statements of account from IIM account holders	Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Reconsideration of the Court's May 28, 2004 Order Regarding Historical Statements of Account PDF OCR
September 08, 2004 Government urges dissolution of temporary restraining order sought by named class members who have no personal stake in land sales and that other absent class members clearly favor	Defendants' Supplemental Memorandum in Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and for Preliminary Injunction PDF OCR
September 08, 2004 Government seeks dissolution of TRO to extent that it prevents transactions that will create an unwarranted hardship on the wildlife mitigation program in the Columbia River Basin under the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act	Defendants' Emergency Motion for Dissolution of the August 31, 2004 Temporary Restraining Order Insofar as it Restrains Tribal Acquisitions Funded by the Department of Energy as Part of its Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Program PDF OCR
September 08, 2004 Government files additional letter from Indian land owner regarding hardship resulting from Temporary Restraining Order	Notice of Filing PDF OCR
September 08, 2004 Government files letter from Indian land owner regarding hardship resulting from Temporary Restraining Order	Notice of Filing PDF OCR
September 07, 2004 Government asks Court to deny plaintiffs' interim fee request, or, in the alternative, to reduce by more than $10,000,000.00 their request for $14,528,467.21 in fees, in light of inappropriate and excessive billings	Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' Equal Access to Justice Act Petition for Interim Fees Through the Phase 1.0 Proceeding PDF OCR
September 03, 2004 Government asks Court to strike plaintiffs' latest instance of never-ending personal attacks on government officials and to admonish plaintiffs' counsel to comply with D.C. Bar's voluntary standards for civility in professional conduct	Defendants' Motion to Strike Scandalous Material from Plaintiffs' Response to the Amicus Curiae Brief Filed by the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma and to Admonish Plaintiffs' Counsel to Comply with D.C. Bar's Voluntary Standards for Civility in Professional Conduct PDF OCR
September 03, 2004 Government refutes plaintiffs erroneous interpretation of Quapaw Settlement Agreement and their misguided attempt to thwart the result of a successful alternative dispute resolution	Defendants' Reply to Plaintiffs' Response to Amicus Curiae Brief of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma PDF OCR
September 02, 2004 Government files with Court correspondence received from individual Indian land owners in connection with Temporary Restraining Order that prevents them from proceeding with previously negotiated land sales	Notice of Filing PDF OCR
September 01, 2004 Treasury files its quarterly report with the Court	Notice of Filing of the Nineteenth Quarterly Report for the Department of the Treasury PDF OCR

Archives:      2004     Aug     Jul     Jun     May     Apr     Mar     Feb     Jan

     2003     Dec     Nov     Oct     Sep     Aug     Jul     Jun     May     Apr     Mar     Feb     Jan

     2002     Dec     Nov     Oct     Sep     Aug     Jul     Jun     May     Apr     Mar     Feb     Jan

2001     Dec     Nov

Privacy Notice Civil Division Home Page Department of Justice Home Page

Created on ... September 10, 2002
Last updated on September 27, 2004
joc